Activate Performing Arts

Produce...
Activate produce, present, and promote the highest quality outdoor arts, strengthening the region's arts ecology.
Perform...
Activate are leaders in extraordinary outdoor, landscape arts with a rich programme of artists and audience development bought to life in partnership with venue and agencies.
Promote...
At the heart of making a success of our ambition are the people we work with: the artists, companies, staff, board, promoters, partners and outside agencies from many different sectors.

Activate creates, supports and develops outdoor arts, dance and theatre across the South West and places Social Justice at its heart.

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Inside Out Dorset Festival 2018

14 - 22 September

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Our Work

Activate aims to be one of the national leaders in presenting land based outdoor performance and making extraordinary performance and high quality arts events happen.

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About Us

Our vision is to help create a thriving performing arts and outdoor celebrations ecology in Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole.

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Upcoming

Dorset Youth Dance Company Classes

Sun 30th Sep to Sun 16th Dec

Short Evening & Saturday Courses

Thu 1st Nov to Sat 19th Jan, Thu 1st Nov to Sat 19th Jan

Learn the Can Can!

Fri 14th Dec

AT THE VENICE BIENNALE SUMMER SCHOOL IN CURATORIAL STUDIES VENICE - OPEN CALL

Closing date: 15/03/2019 (All day)

(Extra)ordinary Open Call, Torbay Great Place Scheme Cultural Programme

Closing date: 14/12/2018 (All day)

Outdoor Arts Development Course (Culture+)

Sat 12th Jan to Sun 3rd Mar

13. Arte Laguna Prize NEW DEADLINE TO APPLY > 19.12.2018

Closing date: 18/12/2018 - 23:00

Graduate User Interface Designer, Dorset Software

Closing date: 31/12/2018 (All day)

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Activate is committed to challenging perceptions that the arts are elitist and not for everyone. We seek to remove barriers to participation where possible and place social justice at the heart of what we do.

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